A Black female therapist in Alabama found a noose hanging from a tree at her home after going to her employer with allegations of racism on the job, according to a lawsuit.
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A Black female therapist in Alabama found a noose hanging from a tree at her home after going to her employer with allegations of racism on the job, according to a lawsuit.
In 1995, Ernest Lee Johnson was convicted in the horrific killing of three Missouri convenience store employees—46-year-old Mary Bratcher, 57-year-old Mable Scruggs, and 58-year-old Fred Jones—with a claw hammer. Johnson’s lawyers have argued that in 2008 an operation on a brain tumor left him with a fifth of his…
Two white television reporters in Little Rock, Ark., were suspended after they wore Afro wigs during an on-air broadcast in September. KATV’s news director, Nick Genty was also fired.
On Sunday morning, a statue of George Floyd, whose death sparked a summer of protests last year, was vandalized in New York City. In a surveillance video released on Monday by the New York Police Department, an unidentified man approached the statue in Union Square Park while riding a skateboard before throwing gray…
In a hopeful turn of events, Syesha Mercado posted an Instagram Live video on Friday to announce that her son, Amen’Ra, was finally back home. In the video captioned “AMEN’RA IS OFFICIALLY HOME!!!”, Mercado’s partner, Tyron Deener, said the family has to undergo six months of supervision by the Department of Children…
In the rich tapestry of history, the threads of Black LGBTQ+ narratives have often been overlooked. This journey into their stories is an ...